Jean-Ulrick Désert: look and look again | Closeup By Andre Bagoo | Issue 157 (May/June 2019) Born in Haiti, currently based in Berlin, Jean-Ulrick Désert may be a citizen of the world — but his ideas are shaped by his Caribbean roots. A kind of discomfort that makes you look closer is key to this artist’s work, writes Andre Bagoo
Vahni Capildeo: shapeshifter, time traveller By Andre Bagoo | Issue 143 (January/February 2017) When Vahni Capildeo won the prestigious Forward Prize for her poetry, the award merely affirmed what her readers already knew: the Trinidad-born writer is a brilliant complicator of language, stories, conventions, and boundaries. Andre Bagoo explains why Capildeo’s poems are so exhilarating
Wild as the wind: the Pointe-à-Pierre Wildfowl Trust By Andre Bagoo | Issue 138 (March/April 2016) Picture a lush oasis of lakes surrounded by green forest, where rare ducks swim among waterlilies, cormorants sun themselves on overhanging branches, and the cries of parakeets fill the air — and all this in the middle of an oil refinery complex. Andre Bagoo visits Trinidad’s Pointe-à-Pierre Wildfowl Trust, celebrating five decades of nurturing endangered birds
Screenshots (November/December 2012) By Andre Bagoo | Issue 118 (November/December 2012) New films worth seeking out
Loretta Collins Klobah: “I want to write poetry that is alive” By Andre Bagoo | Issue 117 (September/October 2012) Puerto Rican poet Loretta Collins Klobah on why poetry still matters — as told to Andre Bagoo
